Relational Alchemy Psychology Services
No matter where you have been, evidence-based therapies are flexible, valuable, and focus on changing now.
Individual Services
Life Transitions / Stress / PTSD / Anxiety / Depression / Purpose / Satisfaction / Connection / Well-Being
You are the expert on you, but are you your most effective and content self?
Individual psychotherapy helps clients deal with particular issues, symptoms, and stressors. My goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental space for you to explore who you are, how you relate to others, and what supports you on your journey to become your best self. I lean into, listen, understand, and enhance authentic expression. Together we create a collaborative process of transformation. What that means and what that looks like is different for everyone...
I work with both adults and adolescents on an individual basis. I have expertise and excellent training in evidence-based psychotherapies for a range of individual mental health concerns including PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I have extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the gold-standard treatment approach for anxiety and depression. I also have extensive specialized training in the Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders and CBT-informed trauma-focused treatments. In therapy, we explore thoughts, beliefs, and understanding, while also prioritizing behavioral processes that focus on your contexts and the functions of how you relate to your internal experiences. CBT is designed to help clients notice and shift their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to get relief from painful emotions such as anxiety and sadness.
Extensive research has shown that most people who have engaged in these treatments have seen their symptoms significantly improve in 12 to 16 sessions. My approach to therapy is compassionate, accepting, and genuine, while at the same time very goal-oriented. My aim is to create a non-judgmental space where you feel fully supported, and to give you the tools you need to step outside your comfort zone, reduce anxiety, move towards your goals, and make lasting change in your life.
Psychotherapy is often also helpful for clients who do not necessarily have a diagnosable mental health condition but are seeking to discuss relationship concerns, life transitions, burnout, stigma, work-life balance, or ways to better manage stress. My style is pragmatic, strength-based, and non-pathologizing. Third-wave CBT (like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness-based interventions) focuses on behavioral processes like developing healthy ways to cope with stress, emotions, and complicated relationships. Mindfulness interventions promote the profound experience of living in the present moment with your thoughts and feelings-- authentically, and nonjudgmentally. These interventions support well-being through developing coping skills, personal values, and metacognition that complement traditional CBT interventions. We explore the sources, experiences, and beliefs that impact how you relate with the world and implement change in your life.
I aim to provide efficient relief from distress, and to teach patients to “become their own therapist.” I use my training to help you make sense of your life and your relationships. I bring an instinctive awareness that each of us has an inner world that can be at odds with the external one we live in. How has this been influenced by your environment and experiences? What is your narrative? My role begins with understanding that inner world with authentic curiosity, and a non-judgmental fearlessness that promotes a new type of relational interaction. As a therapist, I have a focus on therapeutic intentionality while remaining warm and open. I won't flinch at curse words or feel compelled to fill a powerful silence. I can keep up with a dark sense of humor, and appreciate the healing power of laughter. I celebrate your successes and keep us focused on your goals.
I also have specialized experience working in the LGBTQIA+ community, with creatives and high-stress professionals, and with individuals who have experienced sexual assault. I work with topics that are hard to talk about with others and get in the way of you being your best, most effective, and most authentic self. Our stories and narratives are powerful and can help share our reality. We'll uncover what you've been carrying (about you, about the world) that no longer serves you. I help clients to understand themselves and their relationships with more clarity.
Expertise: Working with Creatives: Burnout, Success, Motivation, Inspiration
Expertise: Working High-Stress Career Professionals
I am licensed in both New York State and California in order to better serve my bi-coastal clients and creatives. I work well with creatives at all stages in their career-- from celebrities to LA/NYC newcomers. I enjoy watching the creative journey unfold, and your improved wellbeing become your inspiration.
I offer concierge services for clients in Beverly Hills and Hollywood. I also offer Walk & Talk therapy.
You are the expert on you, but are you your most effective and content self?
Individual psychotherapy helps clients deal with particular issues, symptoms, and stressors. My goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental space for you to explore who you are, how you relate to others, and what supports you on your journey to become your best self. I lean into, listen, understand, and enhance authentic expression. Together we create a collaborative process of transformation. What that means and what that looks like is different for everyone...
I work with both adults and adolescents on an individual basis. I have expertise and excellent training in evidence-based psychotherapies for a range of individual mental health concerns including PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I have extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the gold-standard treatment approach for anxiety and depression. I also have extensive specialized training in the Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders and CBT-informed trauma-focused treatments. In therapy, we explore thoughts, beliefs, and understanding, while also prioritizing behavioral processes that focus on your contexts and the functions of how you relate to your internal experiences. CBT is designed to help clients notice and shift their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to get relief from painful emotions such as anxiety and sadness.
Extensive research has shown that most people who have engaged in these treatments have seen their symptoms significantly improve in 12 to 16 sessions. My approach to therapy is compassionate, accepting, and genuine, while at the same time very goal-oriented. My aim is to create a non-judgmental space where you feel fully supported, and to give you the tools you need to step outside your comfort zone, reduce anxiety, move towards your goals, and make lasting change in your life.
Psychotherapy is often also helpful for clients who do not necessarily have a diagnosable mental health condition but are seeking to discuss relationship concerns, life transitions, burnout, stigma, work-life balance, or ways to better manage stress. My style is pragmatic, strength-based, and non-pathologizing. Third-wave CBT (like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness-based interventions) focuses on behavioral processes like developing healthy ways to cope with stress, emotions, and complicated relationships. Mindfulness interventions promote the profound experience of living in the present moment with your thoughts and feelings-- authentically, and nonjudgmentally. These interventions support well-being through developing coping skills, personal values, and metacognition that complement traditional CBT interventions. We explore the sources, experiences, and beliefs that impact how you relate with the world and implement change in your life.
I aim to provide efficient relief from distress, and to teach patients to “become their own therapist.” I use my training to help you make sense of your life and your relationships. I bring an instinctive awareness that each of us has an inner world that can be at odds with the external one we live in. How has this been influenced by your environment and experiences? What is your narrative? My role begins with understanding that inner world with authentic curiosity, and a non-judgmental fearlessness that promotes a new type of relational interaction. As a therapist, I have a focus on therapeutic intentionality while remaining warm and open. I won't flinch at curse words or feel compelled to fill a powerful silence. I can keep up with a dark sense of humor, and appreciate the healing power of laughter. I celebrate your successes and keep us focused on your goals.
I also have specialized experience working in the LGBTQIA+ community, with creatives and high-stress professionals, and with individuals who have experienced sexual assault. I work with topics that are hard to talk about with others and get in the way of you being your best, most effective, and most authentic self. Our stories and narratives are powerful and can help share our reality. We'll uncover what you've been carrying (about you, about the world) that no longer serves you. I help clients to understand themselves and their relationships with more clarity.
Expertise: Working with Creatives: Burnout, Success, Motivation, Inspiration
Expertise: Working High-Stress Career Professionals
I am licensed in both New York State and California in order to better serve my bi-coastal clients and creatives. I work well with creatives at all stages in their career-- from celebrities to LA/NYC newcomers. I enjoy watching the creative journey unfold, and your improved wellbeing become your inspiration.
I offer concierge services for clients in Beverly Hills and Hollywood. I also offer Walk & Talk therapy.
Consider individual therapy for many reasons, including:
- Managing Big Feelings – decrease that feeling of being 'overwhelmed' by anxiety, depression, anger, stress, guilt, perfectionism
- Embracing Authenticity – understand, experience, and accept yourself for who you are, and show yourself more compassion
- Improving Relationships – build community and relationships, be more vulnerable, and develop skills to feel more connected, supported, and understood by the meaningful people in your life
- Assertiveness and Communication – advocate for yourself, communicate better with others, feel seen and heard, improve problem-solving, show up for yourself
- Achieving Goals – inner critic? build clarity around your needs and wants, define the meaningful and essential steps to getting there
- Finding Joy, Balance, and Meaning – address that sense of dullness and emptiness, connect with what matters to you, embrace playfulness and creativity, and be your most vibrant self
- Find Energy Again – rediscover your motivation, inspiration, and energy to thrive
- Navigating Tough Situations – process trauma, discrimination, breakups, toxic work environments, toxic people, big choices, or challenging family dynamics
- Healing Trauma – work through trauma that disconnects us from our vitality, and sense of safety, sense of agency, and the people we care about-- whether a single event, something that happened more than once, or the accumulated impact of a lifetime of oppression and marginalization
- Cultivating Resilience – learn to identify and explore your innate strengths, learn how past adversity (that has gotten you here) has also given you strength and endurance
- Supporting Your Values – process feelings of sociopolitical grief and anxiety, navigate the impact of systemic oppression and current events, explore diversity and how you experience others and the world
- Trust Yourself Again – improve your feelings of capability, self-efficacy, self-esteem, feeling safe, feeling like you can
Find purpose, satisfaction, connection and ease in every day.
I take a time-limited approach, meaning that a course of therapy typically lasts 12-24 sessions. Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences. This research continues to lend support for a unified transdiagnostic approach to treatment of these disorders that considers their commonalities and is applicable to a range of emotional problems. I provide flexible, customizable approaches that look different with each patient. I empower my clients to discover their strength, clarity, creativity, autonomy, resilience, motivation, and confidence in meeting whatever happens next. I provide individualized tools to use in everyday decision-making that will help those changes last. You deserve a sense of joy and belonging. Even when the world often communicates a different message. (Especially lately...) I support personal growth and change, as well as building an understanding and motivation to change the context, culture, and systems that impact you.Exploring Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation -- Or not...
I understand that for some people, gender, gender expression, sexuality and sexual orientation are important explore in depth in therapy. However, not every member of the LGBTQIA+ community is coming to therapy for these reasons. Being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community does not have to be the focus of your treatment, nor will it be a barrier to any other goals you are looking to address in therapy.I organize treatment from a patient-led basis when it comes to goals. This means that your needs come first, and I follow your lead when it comes to what you come to therapy to work on. You create your own goals, and I help you to reach them.
Life transitions can be:
- coming out
- dealing with fame
- sobriety
- getting married
- transitioning
- starting a new career or changing jobs
- gig culture ups and downs
- child leaving for college
- trauma
- blending families
- online dating
- opening a relationship
- moving
- buying a home
- significant loss (of anything or anyone important to you)
- divorce
- ending difficult relationships
- major lifestyle changes
- having children
- accidents
- health changes
- retirement
What has you stuck? Is it hard to identify or experience your emotions? Where did your inspiration and drive go? Do you feel restlessness in your body?
Do darker thoughts send you spiraling? Do you need closure? How can we support change and growth for you right now? How do you process resentment and betrayal? Do you feel comfortable with your personal boundaries?
Do you want to stop chasing perfection? Are you still having trouble adjusting to a life transition that has you feeling overwhelmed or stressed out?
Do darker thoughts send you spiraling? Do you need closure? How can we support change and growth for you right now? How do you process resentment and betrayal? Do you feel comfortable with your personal boundaries?
Do you want to stop chasing perfection? Are you still having trouble adjusting to a life transition that has you feeling overwhelmed or stressed out?
CBT with Depression and Anxiety:
Depressive symptoms and rumination:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on modifying thought patterns to help change moods and behaviors. It’s based on the idea that negative actions or feelings are the results of current distorted beliefs or thoughts, not unconscious forces from the past. Together with other third-wave interventions, we can focus on noticing and shifting thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to get relief, and develop healthy ways of coping with distress, emotions, and complicated relationships.Post-Traumatic and Acute Stress Disorders:
See BelowAnxiety:
Anxiety can take many forms, including but not limited to feeling nervous/on edge, distressing physical sensations, panic, frequent worries that are difficult to control, or discomfort and avoidance of social situations, specific places, animals or objects. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has strong empirical support in the treatment of anxiety. CBT helps you to gain insight on how anxiety maintains itself in your life, and most importantly learn strategies to break the anxiety cycle and regain control of your life.What if I've tried therapy before and didn't feel better?
The work many people do in therapy is no small feat. For many, things often feel worse before they feel better as you are likely unpacking painful realizations. The fact that you are here, on a therapy practice website, likely means you are open to giving therapy another shot. And, unfortunately, it is true: Not all therapy and therapists are equally effective. There are many reasons for this, and I am sure you've heard some stories from your friends...A crucial part of therapy is the relationship between patient and their therapist. If you don’t feel comfortable or safe with the person you’re meeting with, then it becomes much harder to show up authentically and with vulnerability. A significant part of making progress on your therapy goals is doing the work and showing up. What does doing the work mean? It means that despite the hardships that come from working on yourself, your mental health, and your relationships, you know keep showing up with an open mind and heart. Growth is challenging for many people and often feels worse before it feels better. While working with me, we will navigate intense feelings and provide you with the support to push through the difficult days to find hope and well-being.
“I'm fine. I'll figure this out.”
People are incredibly resilient. You've gotten this far... That means so much. Many clients come to therapy after years of managing or getting through by themselves, and I am in constant awe of the capacity of people to endure difficult, stressful, and painful experiences. But avoiding emotions that feel like they can get out of control, or stress that sits in your body, comes at a cost. It doesn't just go away, it goes somewhere. It impacts us.
When was the last time you engaged in self-care and things that help you feel at peace and balanced?
Our cultural focus on individualism and self-sufficiency has placed an emphasis on personal growth and capacity, without acknowledging that not dealing with tough situations and big emotions (or dealing with them alone) will often manifest as anxiety, depression, physical pain, or disconnection from others.You don't have to accept 'fine' as your 'normal.' Therapy helps.
No matter where you have been, evidence-based therapies focus on changing the now. I strive to help my clients experience the world mindfully and in accordance with their personal values. Through our work in cultivating an affirming, authentic, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, I provide support while we collaboratively deconstruct what is causing distress in your life and preventing you from being your most effective and authentic self. Individual therapy facilitates insight and growth, becoming more effective at actualizing your values, and building more authentic relationships with yourself and with others.Trauma-Focused therapy
Trauma is experienced differently by everyone...
You may notice psychological, emotional, or even physical changes. You may have nightmares or flashbacks, or be unable to get a good night’s sleep. You may feel anxious one day, depressed the next, and/or feel out of control doing things you never did before or while engaged in your daily routine. You may constantly feel like you are in danger, or be irritable and easy to anger.Trauma occurs in many different ways...
Trauma can occur as a car accident, an assault, or from combat. Trauma from stigma, prejudice, and discrimination can be a constant threat to expressing your authentic self. Trauma can be any experience that was too much, too fast, or too soon without the support afterward or enough time to process what just happened.Trauma focused therapy is collaborative...
Trauma therapy isn’t so much about talking about the experience and details of your trauma, as it is about understanding the impact it has had on you and your life, and how you can resolve any difficulties these may have caused for you. Some speak about their experiences in detail, some don’t. I practice evidence-based trauma-focused therapies that have been shown to be effective and short term (~12 weeks). My goals, in addition to yours, include helping you to relieve your distress, develop skills, use those skills effectively, and increase your insight. After that, I am available for check-ins and refresher sessions if needed. Some enjoy continued support, while others have specific goals that indicate to them that they are done with therapy.Trauma focused therapy is unique to you...
We also don't have to dive right in. Engaging in trauma-focused therapy can be a goal, too. I have worked with many diverse individuals who have experienced sexual assault or an unwanted sexual experience recently, or in their past. Sexual violence is pervasive, but still not spoken about openly. And... if you are unable to tell anyone, it’s hard to find help and support. These obstacles and stuck points can come from ourselves, our relationships, our communities, and society. I strive to help you overcome these beliefs and obstacles, and help you chart your own path to wholeistic well-being and balance.
Adolescents and Young Adults
It's hard to feel understood: by peers, by parents, by anyone. These times of our lives can bring feelings of confusion and discouragement. ‘Adulting’ can feel overwhelming. Expectations have grown exponentially, and guidance has become limited. Feeling anxious, depressed, scared, incapable or lost are struggles that therapy can help you sort through. You should be able to feel confident in yourself and abilities, and know that you can manage.
I enjoy working with adolescents and young adults. I've been told that I am easy to talk to, and a bit savvier than your average adult. Therapy with me can help you figure out how to navigate this tumultuous period of emerging into adulthood without feeling spoken down to or judged.